Monday, 23 February 2015

How to make mosquito repellent

When
Monsoons hit the coasts the mosquitoes knock your doors.The season for
yummy blood meal, these tiny insects flying every where, play the music of their tiny wings disturbing
sleep, irritation, malaria,dengue what not. To keep these uninvited guests
away, we spend lots of bucks on repellents. The whole range of repellents
coils, mats, creams, fast cards, sprays spree your space with their own
draw backs.

Coils
choke your sleep, repellent creams have localized action, Fast card effect fades out soon,
Liquid vaporizers dry out with in a week or two . Your liquidator
machine awaits for a new liquid cartridge eagerly on wall, but your
pocket seems to be reluctant to buy
another one.This is situation for many of us.This blog addresses the
solutions for these problems of common man. The content in this blog is
not intended to promote or demote any mosquito repellent, it is purely
informational.

Liquid mosquito repellent preparation

You need a 200 ml Black HIT aerosol and about 500 ml of Kerosene and an empty liquid cartridge.

Black hit coasts about
89/- and 300 ml kerosene coasts approx 30/-. These two ingredients can
give you awesome repellent liquid which can fill around 66 cartridges.

Now lets learn how to prepare the magical recipe.Take a recently completed liquid cartridge.

Pull out the carbon rod from empty cartridge using grip of cutting pliers gently and keep it aside.

Open the nozzle of can into cartridge till you get about 3ml of liquid into it.

Add about 40 ml of house hold kerosene to 3ml of Allethrin liquid from HIT. Now total volume is 43ml which is maximum capacity of typical cartridge.

Re insert the cap with carbon rod on the cartridge, observe for any overflow and clean with a cloth.

Screw up the cartridge in the machine and just see the magic it does on Mosquitoes.

Black Hit contains house hold pesticide called Allethrin mixed in deodorized kerosene and propellent gas. A single 200 ml Hit can can serve around twenty cartridges. Now in market each liquid cartridge sells not less than 50 rupees. Imagine how much you can save through this simple technique.This idea gives a life time savings on mosquito repellents.

Worrying about health?

Well, a typical liquid cartridge contains house hold pesticide called transFluthrin. It is 2025 times toxic to insects. Its mode of action in similar to Allethrin
a synthetic house hold pesticide in Hit. Both the synthetic pesticides
have equal mechanism of action on mosquitoes and you know Black hit is
Indian well known mosquito repellent brand. Hence you can trust the top
brand. Either of the repellents use deodorized kerosene as solvent so no
need to worry about odorized kerosene you are using. Only the
difference is the stench of kerosene.

Hence we can conclude that our self made repellent formulation is completely safe as all other branded repellents.

Soon
after the cartridge gets exhausted we dispose it in dust bin which
actually mean we are throwing out a empty cartridge worth seven rupees.
Throwing empty cartridges may also cause pollution and becomes
environmental concern.So, by reusing these cartridge bottle we are
trying to save environment and nature.In this perspective reusing the
cartridge shows your concern toward safeguarding the nature`s balance. A
cartridge in dust bin is worth rupees seven in your pocket. So, lets
not through it but find some useful way like this to reuse it in better
way.

This self repellent preparation project has three benefits.

It saves environment by reusing plastic waste.

It is completely safe to use as house hold repellent.

It saves money.

How insect repellents work?Most repellent chemicals, especially mosquito repellents,
work by interfering with the mosquito's homing system. This homing
system, located on the antennae, is made up of a number of chemical
receptors. Research has proven that these chemical receptors are set off
by lactic acid, which naturally evaporates from the skin of
warm-blooded animals. The mosquitoes have the ability to follow the
lactic acid to its source. However, when a repellent such as DEET is
applied to the skin, it also causes it to evaporate. The chemical
inhibits the binding of the lactic acid to the mosquito's chemical
receptors. This essentially "hides" the protected person from the
mosquito. Since the active ingredient must evaporate from the surface to
work, the repellent works for a limited period.Natural oils like
eucalyptus oil, citronella oil, geranium oil, peppermint oil also found
to have mild mosquito repellent properties, but are effective for short
periods.

Range of mosquito repellents

Burning
one mosquito coil in a closed room amounts to smoking roughly 100
cigarettes and becomes dangerous to lungs on prolonged use. Mosquito
mats dry up with in three days.Aerosol sprays have immediate effect on
mosquitoes but persists for short time.Mosquito repellent creams have
localized effect,areas of skin where cream is not applied becomes
vulnerable to mosquito bites. The only repellent which is successful in
market is Liquidator. A liquidator has heating coil which vaporizes
consistent amount of pesticide from a liquid cartridge for long period.
It doesn`t smoke or ash.Hence these type of product got much hipe in the
market for it`s outstanding merits.But, sad thing is that it is
expensive.

Is
there any effective product which is safe and coast effective. I
googled for the answer and spent couple of days researching on
mosquito repellents chemicals.I experimented a range of repellents some
are natural essential oils like citronella oil, eucalyptus, synthetic
DEET etc. Finally I came out with an Idea,which is cent percent safe and efficient in repelling mosquitoes.I read lot of research papers on how repellents work and found my new
formula fruitful. The branded repellent products are priced high which a
common man can not afford.

Liquid
refill cartridges exhausted with in 25 days, it becomes unaffordable to
buy a new cartridge so soon.It is estimated every house hold on average
spends rupees 100 on mosquito repellents per month.

If
your home has three bed room and a living room, you may be in need of
four individual mosquito repelling systems and your expenses increases
four times. What then people who maintain hostels, dormitories and
hotels, mosquito management becomes big problem and may require big
share of money.Imagine what is your budget for one year?

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